The Major Autoresponders: Get Response

Every internet marketer tells you about *it*. Many internet marketing courses recommend doing *it*. Most aspiring internet marketers want to have *it*. I won’t bore you further with the same old same old why-you-absolutely-need-a-list… Let’s get on with which one to use: GetResponse , AWeber , or EmailAces?

This is how I’m gonna do it - I touch on what I feel is good and bad for each one of them, and following that, I will make my personal choice (what’s good for me, may not be the same for you, so yup, pick wisely.).

If you understand it all so far, let’s jump right in… like, now.

Presenting Part 1 of the series…

GetResponse

On the outside - the website is very bright, which gives it a cheerful outlook and makes you want to return to the website (no, that’s not lame - website design is part of marketing). Moving around to find information is almost similar to AWeber . A very comprehensive FAQ is available.

On the inside - GR’s interface is run on flash, which makes it very slick and I must say that it is pretty quick to load. The menus are accessible and self-explanatory. All the features in AWeber can also be found in GR. Campaigns and autoresponders are nicely arranged in a tree format so you get a pictorial overview of all your lists. One-click dropdown menu to choose and navigate to your favorite places, which (should) include creating a broadcast and adding a follow-up email. There are also links to view your conversion over time and check out your ROI. Each time you logon, the system will tell you how many new subscribers have been added since your previous login.

The follow-up email follows the same rule as AWeber. It is timed in the number of days.

Broadcasts can be prepared in advance, tested and scheduled for release (you can specify the time and date).

The plus point of GR is the ability to add subdomains, for instance blahblah@yourdomain.getresponse.com. This will make your account “fresh” from the spam rules of inboxes. Confused? Ok, it’s like this: every an autoresponder is used by all sorts of people from all sorts of industries, and out of these list owners, 20% send out spam email (purely fictitious figure, ok). Naturally, they will receive spam complaints. The companies that own the server access to the inboxes (e.g. Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, etc etc) will then block out emails that are sent from the domains that got complained about, or send these emails immediately to the spam/bulk folder. That’s bad ‘cz your subscriber will miss the email at the most opportune time. Other users of the same autoresponder services will affect your email deliverability (which is why many people will prefer to send emails from their own domains).

As you may already know, AWeber and GR have the ability to store many different fields, but well, most times you really only need your lead’s first name and email address, and at the most their last name and phone contact. The rest of the fields like address (snail mail) are unnecessary.

Tomorrow we’ll be back with AWeber. Did you choose GetResponse? Tell us why